If you're distracted by lolcats at work all day, new evidence from evolutionary biology suggests it's not your fault. Human visual attention evolved thousands of years ago to track the movements of animals, and even today people are far more distract...

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President commits more than 3% of GDP to research & development
On Monday, President Barack Obama reiterated his administration's focus on science by promising a new level of commitment—one with the same intensity and urgency as that which put Americ...

With our attempts to cultivate nature, humankind causes the rising of a next nature, which is wild and unpredictable as ever. Wild systems, genetic surprises, autonomous machinery and splendidly beautiful black flowers. Nature changes along with us.

Fire Devils, also known as fire whirls and fire tornadoes, are rarely seen and even more rarely caught on camera. But a lucky filmmaker was able to capture a 100-foot tall fire devil in the Australian outback.

In people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), no two brains are alike when it comes to connectivity between regions, scientists have found, which is in stark contrast to the relatively uniform way the brains of people without autism are arranged....

The question "are we alone in the universe?" has rung across countless centuries and cultures. Works of fiction and speculation attempt to address this, but a lack of imagination or budget often restricts alien creatures to appearing as merely slight...

is the first line, sometimes used as a title, of in the collected poems of (ca. 84 BC - ca. 54 BC). The poem, written in a (11-syllable) , was considered so explicit that a full English translation was not openly published until the late twentieth...

Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 has captured this image of a giant cloud of hydrogen gas illuminated by a bright young star. The image shows how violent the end stages of the star-formation process can be, with the young object shaking up its stellar nu...

This chart shows current Nobel Prize Winners in Physics ranked by country. The Nobel Prize Winners in Physics has been awarded 104 times to 189 Nobel Laureates between 1901 and 2010. Update: The Nobel Prize in Physics 2010 was awarded jointly to And...

The mind is a wonderful thing - there is so much about it which remains a mystery to this day. Science is able to describe strange phenomena, but can not account for their origins. While most of us are familiar with one or two on this list, many ot...

The deepest ocean on Earth is the Pacific Ocean's Marianas Trench, which reaches a depth of 6.8 miles awesomely trumped by the depth of the ocean on the Jupiter's moon, Europa, which some measurements put at 62 miles. That's deep!...

With Halloween just around the corner, enjoy this short list of traditional monsters. If you are unsure of a halloween costume this year... here is your guide! 10. Oni Japanese Depictions of oni vary widely but they are usually portrayed as hide...

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